If you thought life was bad...

You ain't seen nothing yet!!! http://willythecop.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-annual-leave-and-no-sick-leave-for.html

The above has to do with the writer's mom working in some cleaning company. There being a change in management, there was then a corresponding change in working conditions.

" My mom is working at the Tuas South Incineration Plant as a cleaner under the contract of a private cleaning company. The company pays her S$700 a month for a 5-days work week. The pay is not high, but at least reasonable.Now, the cleaning contract has ended for this cleaning company and the contract has been given to another new cleaning company. And so my mom's new boss had a meet-the-people session to tell the cleaners his rules:
1. The pay is reduced to S$500
2. Now it has to be a 5.5 days working week
3. There will be a cut in manpower as there should not be more than 3 people working at an area, regardless how large the area space
4. No annual leave and sick leave for the first year"

And mind you these cleaners are not the run of the mill foreigners (of course i do not advocate such conditions for any human being except those homophobes running ard:P) but our very own 50 years and above ah gong ah ma who have no choice but to work longer because of some fellas aversion to a crutch mentality. Unfortunately they are not so lucky and cannot be consultants or mentors. As can be seen, their conditions are crap.

So much for a caring society and getting more elderly to rejoin the workforce. heh.